'Glue' by Louise Wallwein: Review

The auguries of a childhood which beggar belief: cycles of convent, foster and adoptive care abuses both systematic and brutal; few means of escape beyond retreat ; the repeated failure of social services to fulfil its own duty of care - damage, damage, damage.

The cross-section of poems, play excerpts, prose vignettes, and extant social services documents relating, forensically, to the details of a life, eviscerate that life in order to reveal the flesh, blood and beating heart beneath....